Rafael Gonçalves Cardoso Movies

Suddenly a mysterious woman appears in the West of Portugal. Everybody had seen her, but no one knew her. Mother, fairy, angel, owner of a wine...

A journey through Lisbon’s suburbs through the lives of a handful of musicians establishing their place to exist in a city of complex identity...

Her name is El - a name that sounds like a letter and makes the young androgynous woman a kind of representative of her generation. A generation that...

Daughter of two worlds, the one that the English parents left behind and the Portuguese land of her upbringing that still calls her a foreigner, Ruby...

Alberto is 40 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment complex where he works as a concierge. One day, a circus group settles near...

Maria starts to show signs of wanting to belong somewhere else: scales appear on her skin, roots appear on her legs, and she hears the sound of water...

A young sound director has a task. Rafael must record a crucial sound for a film. With his headphones on he scans the city of Lisbon, looking and...

A chant from another time reveals the ancient everyday gestures of a Gypsy family, anchored by the errant couple Maria and Arménio. In the...

Orphan of the country where he was born, orphan of the Portuguese state. Imprisoned for half his life, never free. Bruno is ‘Ghoya’, a...

Filmmaker Catarina Vasconcelos sifts through the memories of her ancestors. Her naval officer grandfather, Henrique, who married her grandmother,...

Jyzone has just got out of prison. He has found a new job, but the people he meets on the way to work risk making him late for his first day. Through...

October 2019, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (UK). Three months before Brexit. Hundreds of Portuguese migrant workers pour into town, seeking work at the...

Ashore portrays the life of a singular fisherman in an ancient riverfront community near Lisbon. Divided between the quiet solitude of the river and...

Through a city that carries the weight of broken expectations and tough absencies, we follow the day of three young adults. César who got into...

Idling afternoons, drugs, heartbreaks, psychedelic moods immersed in music. An adrenaline rush. Lisbon as the backdrop for a drifting youth.

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually...

Wayward boy punishes his mother’s lover. Beauty and horror fondle each other. Young gods callously abjure conventional morality. Death goes...

A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious.